SOLVED "windows failed to start" dual boot win7/13 Maya
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:14 pm
Hi All,
I’m a total newbie with Linux, and I’m trying to dual boot Mint 13 Maya with Windows 7 on a new Asus laptop I just got. I am also pretty much of a Windows dummy, I’ve owned apples for the last 12 years. Want to make the leap into open software but spent all yesterday trying to make it happen without success.
These are my computer’s specs:
Asus U47VC
x64
Intel i5-3210M CPU @2.5GhZ
BIOS Version American Megatrends Inc. U47VC.207, 4/26/2012
SMBIOS Version 2.7
750GB Hard Drive
I’m not sure whether the architecture on the Mint DVD is 32 or 64, my brother gave me the disk.
Read and followed this tutorial: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/06/06/ho ... windows-7/
The install seemed to go fine, but when I went to reboot, and selected Mint in the Windows Boot Manager,
I got this error message:
“Windows failed to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert Windows installation disk (etc)
2. Choose language settings
3. Click “Reepair your computer”
File \NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr
Status: 0xc0000098
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt. “
Thought my computer might be UEFI based on other people’s comments on the above tutorial (they had gotten the same error message) then
Followed this tutorial: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/10/11/du ... ment-14478
Got the same error message in Windows Boot manager as before. (I’m still not sure whether my computer is UEFI).
Next I read this post that seemed relevant but quite a bit over my head:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1002
I read this thread on using a USB stick instead of a DVD to boot UEFI—not sure if I should try that, don’t have a blank USB stick handy at the moment: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=107620
Next I read this thread on dual booting with Asus, but again it was a bit over my head and I wasn’t sure how much of it applied to my situation: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ilit=+asus
I then read this post http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=116982 that seemed to suggest that instead of following the first tutorial I tried, which said to use the “Something else” option to partition the disk in the Mint Installer, I should have just used the “Install alongside” option in the installer. But the tutorial had warned not to do that because “ T h e p r o b l e m w i t h s e l e c t i n g t h e f i r s t o p t i o n , i s t h a t G R U B w i l l b e i n s t a l l e d i n t h e M B R o f t h e h a r d d r i v e , w h e r e i t w i l l o v e r w r i t e W i n d o w s 7 2 s b o o t f i l e s .”
After the two attempts, my partitions look pretty wacky:
free space 1mb
/dev/sda1 fat32 209mb/33mb used
/dev/sda2 134mb/unknown
/dev/sda3 ntfs 6459mb/41951mb used
/dev/sda6 ext4 500mb/52mb used
/dev/sda7 ext4 230962mb/7118mb used
/dev/sda8 swap 40000mb/0mb used
/dev/sda9 biosgrub 3mb/unknown
free space 0mb
/dev/sda4 ntfs 422905mb/3221mb used
/dev/sda5 ntfs 26843 mb/13919mb used
free space 0mb
Any help on getting this working, and also on how to best allocate my hard disk space among the partitions (I plan on mostly using Mint, keeping windows around for Skype, Netflix, and other random stuff) would be much appreciated!
I don't have much of anything stored on this machine yet, so if wiping everything and starting from scratch seems like the best bet that would be fine.
Many thanks,
Steve
I’m a total newbie with Linux, and I’m trying to dual boot Mint 13 Maya with Windows 7 on a new Asus laptop I just got. I am also pretty much of a Windows dummy, I’ve owned apples for the last 12 years. Want to make the leap into open software but spent all yesterday trying to make it happen without success.
These are my computer’s specs:
Asus U47VC
x64
Intel i5-3210M CPU @2.5GhZ
BIOS Version American Megatrends Inc. U47VC.207, 4/26/2012
SMBIOS Version 2.7
750GB Hard Drive
I’m not sure whether the architecture on the Mint DVD is 32 or 64, my brother gave me the disk.
Read and followed this tutorial: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/06/06/ho ... windows-7/
The install seemed to go fine, but when I went to reboot, and selected Mint in the Windows Boot Manager,
I got this error message:
“Windows failed to start. A recent hardware of software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert Windows installation disk (etc)
2. Choose language settings
3. Click “Reepair your computer”
File \NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr
Status: 0xc0000098
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt. “
Thought my computer might be UEFI based on other people’s comments on the above tutorial (they had gotten the same error message) then
Followed this tutorial: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/10/11/du ... ment-14478
Got the same error message in Windows Boot manager as before. (I’m still not sure whether my computer is UEFI).
Next I read this post that seemed relevant but quite a bit over my head:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1002
I read this thread on using a USB stick instead of a DVD to boot UEFI—not sure if I should try that, don’t have a blank USB stick handy at the moment: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=107620
Next I read this thread on dual booting with Asus, but again it was a bit over my head and I wasn’t sure how much of it applied to my situation: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ilit=+asus
I then read this post http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=116982 that seemed to suggest that instead of following the first tutorial I tried, which said to use the “Something else” option to partition the disk in the Mint Installer, I should have just used the “Install alongside” option in the installer. But the tutorial had warned not to do that because “ T h e p r o b l e m w i t h s e l e c t i n g t h e f i r s t o p t i o n , i s t h a t G R U B w i l l b e i n s t a l l e d i n t h e M B R o f t h e h a r d d r i v e , w h e r e i t w i l l o v e r w r i t e W i n d o w s 7 2 s b o o t f i l e s .”
After the two attempts, my partitions look pretty wacky:
free space 1mb
/dev/sda1 fat32 209mb/33mb used
/dev/sda2 134mb/unknown
/dev/sda3 ntfs 6459mb/41951mb used
/dev/sda6 ext4 500mb/52mb used
/dev/sda7 ext4 230962mb/7118mb used
/dev/sda8 swap 40000mb/0mb used
/dev/sda9 biosgrub 3mb/unknown
free space 0mb
/dev/sda4 ntfs 422905mb/3221mb used
/dev/sda5 ntfs 26843 mb/13919mb used
free space 0mb
Any help on getting this working, and also on how to best allocate my hard disk space among the partitions (I plan on mostly using Mint, keeping windows around for Skype, Netflix, and other random stuff) would be much appreciated!
I don't have much of anything stored on this machine yet, so if wiping everything and starting from scratch seems like the best bet that would be fine.
Many thanks,
Steve